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Famous W. S. Gilbert Quotes
“There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.”
“When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.”
“Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.”
“For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.”
“I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.”
“Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements”
“If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?”
“Roll on, thou ball, roll on! Through pathless realms of Space, Roll on!”
“every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill!”
“Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!”
“On my face extended flat I was walloped with a cat For listening at the key-hole of the door.”
“A man is but an ass Who fights in a cuirass”
“poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished”
“I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind”
“I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.”
“Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.”
“Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?”
“Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.”
“Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.”
“I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.”
“Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.”